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William was from SC died 1865 buried in Hogfoot Cemetery AL
John Ashberry Nichols died AL
Ellen Nora Elizabeth Nichols born in Cuthbert, GA
Skydancer:
My Nichols were earlier. The Greens were in Berkeley County, VA, now WVA. Ruhama Nichols must have connected with them there.
Cindy
Bill & Linda,
Okay, I just did alittle looking. Rev Richard Sankey moved to Prince Edward County in 1759. It says they went to Buffalo Creek. The first time I looked at a map I could only find 2 places in Prince Edward co that had names similar to Buffalo Creek but tonite I looked up history of Rev Richard in Presbyterian files and it took me to http://www.fpehs.org/prospect 1.html website. Says Rev Richard started church in Prospect, VA. Also says he was a trustee for Hampden-Sydney College. There is a picture of the church and college on the website. It’s says it’s a little village on the western side of Prince Edward co. Not very far from Appomattox. That’s further north that I originally thought it was.
Does that help?
Maybe it is just a spelling error and not a name assumption. I think that Richard Sinkey lived in what they called Sinking Valley on Sinking Creek. The part of the puzzle that bothers me is that Rev Richard left in 1759 for VA and Richard Sinkey shows up in PA later in the same year. Richard Sinkey enlists in militia in 1758 and is unheard of from 1762 to 1776. The genealogist that recorded this assumes that he is in the military for 14 years. The thing that bothers me is that his son William Sinkey (m. Mary McCartney) was born in 1766 so he must have had a residence somewhere during that time period for his wife and children. But no one seems to know where that was and nothing is recorded.
That’s why I was asking the questions about Cornplanter Res. I thought maybe the wife and kids were living on a reservation somewhere. Richard doesn’t show up having a residence until 1788. It’s also odd that none of Richard’s other children had the Sinkey spelling for their name, only William. The rest kept Sankey.
Made me think maybe they were’t the same family.
William m. Mary McCartney
Richard, Jr. m. Mary Olyer
Elizabeth m. Daniel McCartney
Mary m. Mathia Midy
Martha m. Thomas Wheeler
It’s odd because then William & Mary’s son Richard marries a Helen Wheeler. You see so many of the names repeated down through subsequent generations. Kissin’ cousins, maybe!
Deb
Deb,
My reason for asking where & when you have the Wheelers is that some time ago I did some work on a Wheeler line in Penn with a Blackfoot I.D.
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Skydancer,
I can find the Lizenby & Gaineys in Florida with the older ones born in Georgia, but couldn’t pull them out of Georgia with any certainty.
Bill
Bill
This is my problem. I have not been able to find what is
going on with them. I know that Grandpa Bill Lisenby
murdered a man for beating his cousin with a buggy whip.
I know he went from state running from the law. I also
know that they tracked him down in FL and made
Grandpa Silas (his son) stand on his grave and swear
that he was dead and in the grave. The family stories
tell this is because Grandpa Bill was an Indian and the
man he killed white. He was supposed to be Blackfoot,
married to a Siouxian woman.
I can not prove this but I don’t think our family stories
are lies.
Skydancer
Bill,
I show that Richard was son of William and Mary (McCartney) Sinkey born 2 June 1789 in Huntingdon Co., PA. I show Helen Wheeler Sinkey born 1786 in Maryland. I show their 5th child born in Licking Co., Ohio. I don’t have info on where they were married, but I am assuming in PA. I show Helen’s father as a Wilson Wheeler and no mother listed in my info. I do remember somewhere reading that Richard got in a fight in Ohio and killed a man and that’s why they went to Michigan and the rest went on to Iowa. Apparently a man kept trying to pick a fight with Richard for years and he wouldn’t fight him and one night he started a fight that Richard couldn’t get out of and hit the man and the blow killed him. I don’t remember where I read that but I think it was in info I found in the “Sankey/Sinkey” book by Joe Sankey.
Deb
Bill,
I show that Martha Sinkey was an aunt of Richard. Richard that married Helen Wheeler was the son of Martha’s brother William Sinkey. Martha and William the children of Richard and Bridget Sinkey. (Cindy thinks that Bridget was a Green because she made Joshua Green executor of her husband’s estate after his death). Martha was born in 1779 in Huntingdon Co, PA. I don’t know when she married Thomas Wheeler. I’ll have to check another book and see if there is any more info there. I think Thomas and Helen have to be 2 different generations.
Deb
Courtney wrote: Hello Skydancer:
I am wondering why you ask about the Lisenby/Lasenby/Lazonby family… I am researching Parr and Crump ancestors from Patrick and Pittsylvania counties in VA trying to find out about Indian connections. My Parrs and their descendants, the Crumps, were intermarried with the Saponi families of Corn and Hathcock. Descendants also married Payne, Gibson, Fletcher, Collier, Fields, Tyner, Bowling/Bolling, Reeves and went to Franklin and Elbert counties in GA. The reason I ask is that one of my Crumps married a Jane Lisenby/Lazonby.
Are you aware of any Indian heritage in the Parr, Crump, or Lazonby/Lisenby/etc families? They were in the right area and were intermarried, but I never find their names in any of the Saponi literature.
Sorry I have no information on the Ganey family.
Sincerely,
Courtney E. Shinaberry
I ran across this post…many of your surnames listed, thought you might want to contact courtney:)
Shirley
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